THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1951 Stars Find Constitute By RAY KOEHLER Collegian Sports Editor Time finally ran out in the sudden-death overtime game which involved eight New York hoop stars in basketball's latest "fix" scandal. For Sherm White, Adolph Bigos, Leroy Smith, and Edd: Warner, Ed Roman, and Al Roth, and NYU's Harvey Schaff, their backs on honesty for the sake of personal gain and ,in and heartbreak which is only now beginning to unfold. They ignored the position they would be placing their family and friends in if they lost but what's more important, they squandered their ow n self-re spect. As one of them said—"We were suckers" Daily Mirror ExCerpts Listen then to the stories of those who idolized these top flight college athletes as excerpt ed from personal interviews by a reporter of the New York Daily Mirror. James White, whose son got a chance no other member of the family had—a chance for a col lege education and a career as a professional athlete—tried des perately to restrain his emotions as he discussed Sherman. "Sherman was to have grad uated in June. It w u 1 d have been different if" he were raised . on the streets, but he had to go to college to learn something he was never taught at home." Bowing his head the elder White went on: "Everywhere Sh e r.m a n went in town, he had kids trailing behind. If he 3idn't stop at Lincoln Junior High School where he learned to play, Mr. David, the princi pal, would feel hurt. Now there's nothing left for him." Bigos Remorseful Adolph Bigos is another who will never again be able to lift his head proudly as he "-walks down the street followed by wide-eyed kids. Ted Bizos, an older brother said: "I can't understand why he did it . . . He doesn't need money that badly . . . this is a terrible shock. The kid was always a winner. ' When he played for Perth Amboy High he was the star, the idol of the kids, and older folks, too." Mrs. Alfred Smith, in Neward, at last broke down into tears af- IM Handball Contests Open First round action in the Intra mural handball competition will get underway tonight with ten matches on the agenda. This year's action promises to provide spirited competition, as there are eight flight winners re turning from last year. Arthur Oberg, who defeated Joe Lane in the finals ,is also back for anoth er year of competition. This year's registration is slightly smaller than that of last years with . 102 representatives from 38 fraternity houses entered in competition. Nine independ ents are signed up to compete in a wide open field, since last year's champion, Milt Silverman, has graduated. Battling against each other to night in the opening round of ac tion will be: Flight one: Owen Dougherty, Kappa Delta Rho, and Richard Blythe, Pi Kappa Phi; Louis Gomlick, Alpha Tau Omega, and Kenneth Weiss, Sigma Nu; John Juppenlatz, Alpha Chi Sigma, and Irwin Lindenberg, Phi. Sig ma Delta; James Kilgore, Lamb da Chi Alpha, and Ken Webster, Sigma Phi Alpha. Flight two: Robert Ward, The ta Kappa Phi, and Cyril Farrelli, Phi Sigma Kappa; Jerry Weis man, Sigma Alpha Mu, and Don ald Williams, Acacia; Chris Ton nery, Alpha Chi Rho, and Rich ard Collodi, Delta Upsilon; Ray mond Artz, Alpha Sigma Phi, and John Wilcox, Sigma Alpha. Ep silon. Flight three: David Bischoff, Sigma Nu, and William Porr, Delta Sigma Phi; James Clarke. Sigma Pi, and Leroy Guccini, Phi Sigma Tears, Payoff Sherman White White Is Scratched From Honor Lists 'NEW YORK, Feb. 21—(11") Sherman White star Long Is land University 'forward and the nation's top basketball scorer, has been withdrawn from considera tion on several all-America se lections, it was disclosed today. Two magazines, Colliers and Look, said White had been scratched from the list of candi dates for the team after the dis closures by district attorney Frank Hogan. However, White was named player of the year in the Sport ing News all-America team which came out today. Sporting News, published in St. Louis, already was in the mails when•the scandal broke. ter first refusing to believe her son, Leroy, was involved: 'ls It True?' "I can't believe Leroy would do a thing like that," she moaned. "Sports were his life . . . He could have gone to almost any school . He picked LIU because of its basketball prestige . . . Is it really true?" Then she sobbed as only a mother can because she knows it is. Mayor Denning, of Englewood, one of Sherman White's fans, said: "Englewood is heartbroken and shocked. I have held Sherman up as an inspiring example. I'm afraid he is a victim of the over-emphasis of athletics." Husky Al Roth, a junior at City College, suffered his greatest re morse over the reaction of his 14-year-old brother, Joel.. "He idolized me and made me teach him how to shoot so he could follow in my foot steps ... Funny, last year the Whiz Kids and this year the Biz Kids." HEY ! - LOOK lei 3 4 • Any three garments cleaned and pressed for the price of two Wednesday, Feb. 21, thru Sat., Feb. 24 LAUNDERETTE 210 W. College Avenue Open 7:30 to 6 p. m. Call 4785 For 3-4-2 Pick-Up and Delivery Service TEE DAILY COLLEGIAN, • STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Broken In Basketball 'Fix' ie Gard, of LIU; CCNY's Ed , the game is up. They turned so. doing left a trail of misery Boxer Pat Heims Has Varied List Of Achievements It takes a lot of adjectives to describe the second subject of our Lion Vignettes on the boxing team. Among them would cer tainly have to be athletic, popu lar, and photogenic. Tall, dark-haired Pat Heims has a varied list of achievements to his credit. He is captain of the 1951 boxing team. He is the reign ing king of the Mardi Gras. He is vice-president of Parmi Nous, and secretary-treasurer of the men's Athletic association. He is runner up to the current NCAA 155 lb. boxing champion, Eli Thomas, from Gonzaga University. And he is good at all these- posts.. The good looking senior isn't too far from home when he's at Penn State. His home is in oSce ola Mills. just 30 miles away. It was there that his athletic urge led him onto the football field and baseball diamond. He cap tained the football squad his senior year in high school, while playing with Chuck Godlasky and Bill Luther, Lion grid stand outs. Pat never went out for foot ball at State, but tried it his fresh man year at Lock Haven State Teachers college. He laughingly says they took one look at his lean frame and told him to go out for something else. So Pat took up boxing that fall, and hasn't regretted a minute of it. It was in the NCAA meet that Heims really got his'• lightning fast left into play. Pat readily admits that's his best punch, but likes to cross with the right when he sees the chance. Meets Badger Captain This year Pat has a 2-3 record. His best fight to-date went only two rounds, when he was floored by a low blow by Syracuse's Bill Miller last week. Heims had a definite edge at the time, using his left jab to great advantage. This week he runs into the best of a good crop of Wisconsin box ers when he meets Badger Cap tain Dick Murphy at 155-lbs. Like a lot of college men these days, Pat says he is headed for the Army as soon as he graduates in June. He says, "If they're doing any boxing where I'll be, then I'll be boxing too." When you see him working out each day, you know he means it. Dreams By ART BENNING Chooses Boxing Forfeit Games Worry 1M Department Heads This article, the last in a series attempting to paint a brighter picture of intramural sports, ex presses the hope that Gene Bisch off and "Dutch" Sykes' work in the intramural department can carry on the high quality it has attained since its inaugural here in 1939. One thing that these men some times utter a beef about is the many forfeits that crop up during a long season of say, IM touch football, softball, basketball, etc. Here, in this case, the particular squads are definitely in the wrong, since they are notified by the mimeographed schedule it self, and sometimes by a phone call from "Dutch" or Gene them selves. They believe that either a team should enter and stick to it or else it shouldn't bother to enter at all. In very few cases will, a squad find it "altogether impos sible" to report for the contest. Stories of this type come to mind, and some of the best come out of the fraternities where pledges forget to tell the athletic chairman that the IM office call ed and that a game was to be Dutch Sykes played last night. What drastic measures the brother used in punishing these uninformers can not be put in print here, but the imagination is a great aid. • A father of one of the boys in the Beta . Theta Pi house, came down to State College a few years back to visit his son. It was in the YOUR OFFICIAL CLASS RING Class of 52 Your Class IS 's2' Order , Now Balfour's at 'A' Store Makes a Man Love a Pipe and a Woman Love a Man fct t l: i y_ By LOWELL KELLER middle of the IM soccer season and the Betas had advanced to the quarter-finals. While at the house, this Mr. Helffrich, a for mer track great at the College, received a phone call that Beta Theta Pi was to play in the quar ter-finals the next day. He assured the caller that he would tell the boys, but when the following afternoon rolled around the Betas were nowhere to be found._ And so a very much abashed Mr. Helffrich left for home the next day, a sadder but wiser man. Names will always make head lines. Combine the names with their singularities and you may be sure that you will come up with something that is worth note. Sometimes even without a name, for instance, the varsity basketball player who had, an intramural football team. This character used to sneak out of practice sessions to lead his team on the gridiron and eventually to a semi-final berth. He also happened to be the star of the squad, but requested that Col legian never use his name for fear he would be booted from the court five. And so, the men, scores, teams, and names will keep on making small print in the paper and the intramural office will continue to function as always. But the oddi ties are in a class by themselves. FRATERNITY NEWSPAPERS All Kinds of Printing CommercialPrinfing Inc. Glennland Bldg., State College WINK'S SKY-VIEW SERVICE STATION For 111' THAT GOOD GULF GASOLINE On Route 322 Discount to Students The Thoroughbred of Pipe Tobaccos Choice white Burley • Smooth and mild PAGE SEVEN
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